>>9450194For one, it looks like the Vallée gained independence from North-West Italy.And I can't help but laugh at Romagna. No territory of OUR Romagna is under their dominion, much less I think it would be of any vital importance to have it earn a place in the nation's name, so why naming it after it then?

"Ostmark is a modern German translation of the term Ostarrîchi, a 10th-century Germanic vernacular for marchia Orientalis ("eastern march") that appears in a single contemporary document. There were in fact two marches called marchia Orientalis: the Saxon Ostmark and the Bavarian Ostmark.

The term "Ostmark" itself, a concise but ahistorical 19th-century translation of marchia orientalis, was revived by the Nazis after the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany (Anschluss), as they wanted to purge any Austrian identity separate from the Altreich. In 1942, the term was officially replaced by "Alpen-Donau-Reichsgaue" or "Donau- und Alpenreichsgaue" (Alpine and Danubian Territories) in order to avoid any connotation of Austrian particularity and specific relationship among the territories making up Austria."